fun with numbers

it’s amazing some of the odd shit i come up with when i’m barely awake…

…i thought i’d share the one from today.

i, like most americans, have three names. i, unlike most southerners, don’t use all three typically. but i did find an odd coincidence with them i thought i’d share because…well…honestly, i’m wondering if i’m right. it all goes back to before i was born.

when my mom was pregnant with me she was in an odd car wreck. it was odd because the physics didn’t add up – a black cadillac swerved into the guard rail on i-35 right over woodland avenue in south austin, knocking a large chunk of it, and the concrete it was attached to, down to the frontage road below. when it plummeted down it struck a yellow vw bug below driven by my mother, and while it should have crushed in the cabin, it harmlessly bounced off the roof, barely scratching the paint. the driver, and what she soon found out was her unborn child, were unharmed.

because of this she thought i was destined for greatness. at fifty-three and some change i’m still not seeing it. but perhaps now i have discovered my true calling?

my grandfather, morris dewitt mccauley, didn’t like his name, so he went by “m.d.” or “mac”. it became all the more amusing when he went to medical school, eventually having business cards that read, “m.d. mccauley, m.d.”. he names his oldest boy, on purpose, to have the same initials, christening him “myron dudley mccauely”, my dad. when they found out mom was going to have a boy, they wanted to keep their monogram tradition going so they decided i would get, quite literally, the worst of both worlds and be named “myron dewitt mccauley”.

mom wasn’t having it.

she never told me where she got the idea, but she decided to “compromise” with them and go two outta three with the monogram (i guess the last one was a guarantee regardless) and name me “michael sean mccauley”, which has an interesting bit of numerology to it, i have discovered.

all three names have two letters in common, “a” and “e”. “a” is the first letter of the alphabet, and “e” is the fifth. add one and five together and you get six. so when you look at the letters all three of my names have in common, and add them together, you get “666”.

so i am the antichrist? it would kinda jive out some things.

just a theory i came up with as i let my brain wander on a lazy sunday morning…